Path of Shadows

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“Get him! Now!”

The words rang through the air, carrying an edge of cruelty.

“We’ll teach him a lesson,” another voice, equally vicious, snarled. “Show him a thing or two.”

Lieutenant Bak, officer in charge of a unit of Medjay po lice until recently posted on the southern frontier, was in stantly struck by the meanness he heard. His head snapped around and he looked along the waterfront. His Medjay ser geant Imsiba and Lieutenant Karoya, head of the harbor pa trol, followed his glance. They saw three men in the distance, standing at the mouth of what they knew was a dead-end lane. The object of their hatred had to be trapped inside.

A third voice shouted, “Cast him back into the desert he came from.”

“Not enough!” the first man snapped. “We must send a message to others like him. They’ve no right to defile the streets our sovereign treads.”

Exchanging a quick glance of mutual agreement, Bak, Im siba, and Karoya raced up the broad, open street, lined on their right by ships moored along the riverbank and on their left by several blocks of interconnected buildings.

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